The power of youth energized the crowd of about 200 in the parade while many others said much work lies ahead, particularly in light of high incarceration rates among black men and ongoing protests over police shooting deaths of unarmed black men and women. During the post-parade program at El Cerrito High School, 7-year-old Christian Lee brought the audience of more than 400 to their feet singing “The Star Spangled Banner,” by memory. Madera Elementary School student Caden Cotton-Black spoke at length about how the paths of King and the late poet and author Maya Angelou crossed, and shared the message of turning hate into love and fear into hope.

Happy Hollow Foundation Executive Director Heather Lerner said she purchased the sign from the ride wedding ballet flats,ivory,light blue,something blue,ballet slippers,lace ballet flats,custom ballet flats,wedding flats,vintage during the 2008 auction, where many features from the old park were sold, and is thrilled to be able to put it on display with the figures for Saturday’s party, Of course, you won’t be able to ride them, but it’ll be good for a photo or two, A limited number of tickets are still available at $175 for Hoot & Howl, which turns the park over to adults for a night and is raising seed money for a reptile and amphibian house, There will again be food stations created by caterers Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme, magician Jay Alexander returns with “The Secret Show” and the giant Redwood Lookout fort will again be the site for a dance party with acclaimed club DJ John Beaver (who also is a Happy Hollow zookeeper by day), Get more details at www.hhpz.org..

“Fortunately, I live near an air base and a Navy base,” Rusinek said, referring to the Joint Forces Training Base and the Naval Weapons Station. “There are lots of kids in the military around here, and they all look so young to me.”. Rusinek, who grew up outside of Detroit, said he remembers “the feeling of being a long way from home and family.”. “Back then, towns would throw Saturday night dances for servicemen stationed there so they could get off base to socialize,” he recalled. “There’s nothing lonelier than training camp on weekends.”.

Recalling a bygone example, McBride says, “It’s called ‘The Face of Danger,’ so Steve Danger is a plastic surgeon, and he solves crimes by changing his face with plastic surgery.”. It was during one such alcohol-fueled session, while they worked on Green’s 2003 feature “All the Real Girls,” that a similarly ridiculous reverie came to them. “It was going to be called ‘Your Highness,’ ” Green says. “And the poster was going to be Danny in a chain-mail leotard, with a joint in one hand and a sword in the other. And it was going to say, ‘Put this in your pipe and smoke it.’ ”.